The Best Films of 2022-Robert Butler
What will be said about 2022 in cinema? Week after week, we continue to hear about dour box office numbers and that theaters are in crisis. Certain columns claim the [...]
Broker
Veteran Japanese filmmaker Hirokasu Kore-ada makes his second film in a row outside of his native homeland with Broker, an uneven but undeniably poignant crime drama, part road movie. After [...]
Babylon
A first-rate cast, high ambitions, and grandiose spectacle certainly prevent Babylon from being a complete trainwreck in Oscar-winning filmmaker Damien Chazelle's latest feature. With extraordinary set-pieces and spectacular craftsmanship, plus superlative performances [...]
The Whale
Stories of loss are a constant in film, as they are in life. At their best, films dealing with these topics can inform and enlighten audiences - can touch them [...]
No Bears
The latest film from dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi titled No Bears is a clever meta-satire that works well as an indictment of Iran's authoritarian regime as well as an [...]
Corsage
Corsage is an emotionally complex, vivid period piece about the life and repression of Empress Elisabeth during her tenure as Queen of Austria. The film chronicles how her anxieties, insecurities, [...]
Avatar: The Way of Water
It’s been exhaustively questioned as to whether James Cameron’s Avatar, the highest grossing film of all time, originally unseating Cameron’s own Titanic, has sustained its influence on pop culture as [...]
Nanny
There have been many films about the experiences of immigrants coming to the United States. While most are dramas, they have run the gamut of tone and genre. In her [...]
Christmas Bloody Christmas
2022 has not only been a standout year for horror with both critical and commercial hits such as Smile, Barbarian, X, Terrifier 2, Pearl and more. The year is also [...]
Emancipation
The deplorable history of slavery in the United States has been the focus of many films over the years. The films have been of varying quality, and there have also [...]